Sunday, January 20, 2008

Brewing entrepreneurship MBA style

Yesterday I along with my friends had gone to Brewhaha http://www.brewhaha.in/index.html , a place similar to Café coffee day but with a difference – you can play various games.
The very idea seemed innovative. The place had a home like environment with pillows, sheets etc. We can sit relaxedly and play games. What’s more Wifi connection was also there. We can buy snacks in addition to coffee day style coffee. We kept ordering food items while we were engrossed in our games. Well to be frank, others concentrated in the game. I played when there was no food left ;) That was the real ploy people keep ordering while they play.
We played a game where we had to find the word with the help of shapes drawn on cards. You can watch it here:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3121760223278786369&hl=en
It’s only Rs.20 per hour per person – affordable, yet a good way to spend time. If you get time do visit this place. You will never feel the time running by.
This place has been started by two IIM A guys. It’s nice to see IIM guys becoming entrepreneurs like this. They end up doing what they love to do. Atleast there are few to resist working for a lucrative salary in a MNC and chase their dreams.
In one recent survey in IIM B, 72% had told they wanted to become entrepreneurs. But the real no of guys becoming entrepreneurs is very low.
One of the IIM professors ridicules this trend telling that most of the interview candidates tell they want to become entrepreneurs at some point of time. If that were true half the country will comprise entrepreneurs. Some safely tell they will become one after 15 years which is as good as telling they will never become one. Some go to the extent of telling they want to serve the country (by working for a MNC :P ). Read more at:
http://www.banglani.com/blog/?p=12
It takes real courage to chase your dreams. As Bharat Ratna Abdul Kalam rightly said : “Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.”

2 comments:

  1. I wish we had some place like this during my coll days !!would hv been the best hang out for post-bunking hours!:)U can assure urself of going far far away from the responsibilities of a professional life, to the innocence and excitement of childhood and teenage..A must visit place for all those gang of freinds with a love for board games..

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  2. It looks like a nice place to hang out. Nice effort taken to inform other people abt the place thru ur blog. keep on bloggggging.

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